General, Madam Called You To Farm - Chapter 161

General, Madam Called You To Farm
Chapter 161 – Reunion (3)

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She baked sweet potato cakes with peanut butter for herself, then cooked vegetable and egg noodles for her family. She paired them with fried lotus root balls and mung bean balls.

-Chinese Sweet Potato Cakes / Hongshu bing / 红薯饼

-Vegetable and egg noodles

Wei Ting’s injury was no longer serious. Except that he couldn’t eat too spicy food, there were no other restrictions for him. 

Then Su Xiaoxiao sadly realized that this guy’s food intake had also become bigger since he had no food restrictions. 

There would be one more big eater at home! 

-big eater (someone who eat a lot)

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Su Xiaoxiao made braised crucian carp (the fish was caught by Su Ergou in the river), Braised pork leg with lotus root (the lotus root was dug by Su Ergou in the fish pond), and wild vegetable egg pancakes (the wild vegetables were dug by Su Ergou in the back mountain).

Also steamed lotus root balls, mung bean balls and pearl balls. 

-Braised crucian carp

-Braised pork leg with lotus root 

-Wild vegetable egg pancakes / Ye Cai Ji Dan Bing / 野菜鸡蛋饼

-Steamed lotus root balls

-Steamed mung bean balls 

-Chinese Pearl Balls, are meatballs coated with sticky or glutinous rice. 

The three little ones loved the pearl balls the most, they even ate the chopped ginger inside without complaining. 

There were also steamed cured meats —— pork liver, sausages, pork ribs, and a few stir-fried vegetables. 

-Steamed cured meat

-stir-fried vegetables 

Father Su didn’t expect to have such a sumptuous New Year’s Eve’s dinner in his lifetime. He wondered, If only his wife was still alive. 

She would definitely be very pleased.

“Yeye*, eat ribs.” Dahu clipped a large piece of pork ribs for him. 

*Yeye (爷爷) : paternal grandfather, a honorific title for a man of the same generation and age as one’s grandfather.

“Eat meat.” Erhu gave him the meat from his bowl.

Xiaohu’s chopsticks were not as good as his older brothers’. So he used his little spoon to scoop up his favorite pearl ball and clumsily put it into Father Su’s bowl. 

“Zhuzhu Wanji (Pig Ball)!” He said in a milky voice.

Father Su laughed and corrected, “It’s Zhenzhu Wanzi (Pearl Ball).” 

Xiaohu learned: “Zhuzhu Wanji.”

“Zhen Zhu Wan Zi!” Father Su taught with great patience.

“Zhu Zhu Wan Ji!*” 

*Pearl Ball is Zhenzhu (珍珠) Wanzi (丸子) in chinese.
What Xiaohu said is Zhuzhu (猪猪) Wanzi (丸几). Zhu is a pig. He spelled it wrong. 

Xiaohu was trying hard to learn it!

Dahu stuck out his tongue and said, “Xiaohu is so stupid!” 

Xiaohu waved his hand seriously and said, “Xiaofu (hu) is not stupid!”

Erhu also said: “Stupid.”

Xiahu said: “Not stupid!”

Er Hu was an easily swayed person: “En, not stupid.”

Dahu: “Just stupid!”

Xiaohu: “Just not stupid!”

The three little guys quarreled, the main force was Dahu and Xiaohu, and Erhu tried to smooth things over. 

“Alright, alright, don’t quarrel anymore.” The tears on Father Su’s eyes were gone, because of these three little guys. 

By the time he finished coaxing the three little ones and continued grieving for his wife, he realized that his emotions were all incoherent! 

“They weren’t this noisy before.” Wei Ting seemed like to talk to himself, and it also seemed like he was talking to Su Xiaoxiao who was next to him. 

Su Xiaoxiao looked at the three little ones who were clearly done arguing, but constantly kept sticking out their tongues and making faces at each other. 

-Making faces at each other

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, “Is it noisy? I don’t think so.” 

If there weren’t their chatter, then how desolate this new year would be. 

During the night, Su Xiaoxiao took out the big red lantern she had made and asked Wei Ting to hang it up.

Su Ergou cut large quantities of bamboo and made a pile of firewood in the open space in front of the door. He threw the bamboo in one by one.

The bamboo was burning with a crackling sound, like firecrackers.

-Burning the bamboo in ancient times. 
In ancient China, it is believed that the first natural ‘firecrackers’ were bamboo stalks that when thrown in a fire, would explode with a loud ‘bang’ because of the overheating of the hollow air pockets in the bamboo. Chinese people believed these natural ‘firecrackers’ would ward off evil spirits. 

-Natural firecrackers

-Firecrackers 

The three little ones had never seen firecrackers before, so their first reaction was fear, and they threw themselves into Su Xiaoxiao’s embrace. 

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, “It’s okay. It’s firecrackers, it’s very fun.” 

As she spoke, she also threw one into the fire.

The three little ones saw that Su Xiaoxiao was playing, so they really weren’t scared anymore. 

“More firecrackers! More firecrackers!” 

The three of them ran over, pulled Su Ergou’s hand and said.

“Okay!” Su Ergou said, “Watch this.” 

“Hey hey hey! How can you throw it like that! I’ll do it!” Father Su decisively snatched Su Ergou’s bamboo. 

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